Where was I?

Oh yeah- I was gonna talk about the triathlon I did back in August. I will. Eventually.

In the meantime, I'll recap the last few races I've blasted through. Well not really blasted but you know what I mean.

10/26/08 Lynn Woods Trail Race. In Lynn. LYNN! Yeah- Good times! 40 minutes for a 5K. It was the one ridiculous hill that did me in. Holy crap! I mean, I know I'm slow- But seriously! It was fun nonetheless. Alyssa ran the 9-mile version. It was a definite 'bite-me zone' day for her. I continues my experiment... a medium Dunkin' Donuts coffee and a plain donut before the race~ It seems to work but I need to experiment more... Oh- the winner of the 9-mil race ran like 6 minute miles. Freak.

11/02/08 Busa Bushwack trail race. Framingham. It's not Lynn!! Me, Alyssa, Kyrsten and some other friends. And our own cheering section: Alyssa's Mom and Dad. A medium coffee and two donuts. (Yeah- two donuts- It was 5.3 miles.) A fun run. Kyrsten overslept (The end of daylight savings time- Only happens EVERY YEAR!) and caught up to us after the race actually started. I actually did OK (For me...) 1:10:32. I think I'm worse at trail running than regular (?) running. It's definitely harder to fall into a rhythm. I took a couple of excellent diggers toward the end of the race. A little blood is cool! After the race, the bunch of us went to Dunkin' Donuts. I had a pumpkin donut. It was good. :o) After breakfast, Alyssa, her Mom and Dad (Annemarie and Earl) went to Bernardi Toyota to look at new cars for Alyssa and torture sales people. I pity the foo' that tries to put one over on Annemarie. I do love making car sales people squirm! Fun times!

11/27/08. Feaster 5 (K or miles- K for me!) in Andover. Too many dogs, too many strollers. It's become a bit of a Thanksgiving Day tradition but I think I might have to look for a new race next year. Kyrsten and I were honorary members of Alyssa's team. They ran the 5 mile race. I ran the 5K. (Why run more when you can run less?!) Even though I ran the shorter race, I wasn't actually sure I'd finished before them! (I did, believe it or not!) We ran into a bunch of Team in Training people. It was nice to be there with so many friends. Oh- And when you finish, you get pie! :D

12/6/08 Mayor Higgins Hot Chocolate Run, Springfield. I went out to Springfield to run this 5K with Kirsten (K1) and Allan who live near there. Due to a comedy of errors, I never actually found them! I did, however, run a 5K PR (A PR for the last few years at least) of 00:33:33. The course was great and the race volunteers were terrific. The hot chocolate though, was not. There is a two mile walk along with the 5K. The walk starts a half hour before the run. Do the math. The walkers cleaned out the first batch of hot chocolate long before myself and rest of the penguins got back. By the time I actually got to the front of the line, the 'hot' chocolate was somewhere between room temperature and 30 degrees. This race seems like it's one of those events that's outgrown it's infrastructure. I might do this one again if I can: A) Find K1 and Allan, and; B) Have chocolate that is, in fact, hot.

So anyway, we're up to date. Well, except for the triathlon. I'll get to that eventually.